It seems no-one is safe from hackers as the official Pokemon X account was temporarily hacked and was advertising memecoin ahead of the Pokemon World Championships. The Pokemon Company quickly regained control of the account and a screenshot has been saved of the proceedings. The Pokemon Company has apologised to fans and said on X that the posts promoting crypto “were not created or approved by Pokémon and have been removed.”
Statement
The @Pokemon handle on X was temporarily compromised earlier for ~30 minutes.
We’re aware that our X account was accessed without authorization and used to publish posts promoting a cryptocurrency.
Those posts were not created or approved by Pokémon and have been removed. We’re sorry for the confusion and appreciate your patience.
Crypto post
“Pokémon X account” certainly confused me given Pokémon X is a game haha. Add it to the very long list of why we shouldn’t name our social media sites after letters.
Hope no one fell for that scam anyway, they put some effort in trying to make it seem like it could plausibly be a Pokémon Twitter post. But still, surely you can’t fall for it.
Man, crypto bros are still total losers. I don’t like The Pokemon Company, but any “currency” that requires making a total ass out of yourself to promote, wasn’t worth the time to do that.
Hahaha
Yes. The scammers and hackers finest work.
It’s Twitter. I was confused for a few seconds.
Those lousy hackers. They are worthless because they cannot make a mod for pokemon shield to replace Avery with Klara.
Das zeigt einmal mehr, dass selbst große Unternehmen vor solchen Angriffen nicht vollständig geschützt sind. Gerade bei einem offiziellen Pokémon-Account mit einer riesigen Fangemeinde können gefälschte Beiträge schnell für Verwirrung sorgen. Gut ist, dass das Team den Zugriff offenbar relativ schnell zurückbekommen und die Beiträge entfernt hat. Trotzdem wäre es interessant zu wissen, wie der Angriff möglich war und welche zusätzlichen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen jetzt eingeführt werden. Für Fans ist vor allem wichtig zu wissen, dass die Krypto-Werbung nicht von Pokémon selbst stammt. Instant Casino bietet Erwachsenen einen digitalen Rahmen für zeitgemäße Casino-Unterhaltung. Bei Instant Casino steht ein unkompliziertes und abwechslungsreiches Online-Erlebnis im https://instantcasinologin.de/ Mittelpunkt.